Hey everyone, Simon here with Top Tennis Training,
and in this video I want to help you to get more power on your forehand in tennis
now when it comes to generating power on any shot it's all about creating racket head speed
So I'm going to show you two different shadow swings and listen to the sound
that my racket and strings make on both of them so the first one
now the second one
so both swings are exactly the same technically but one I'm doing at much higher speeds
so the first one i'm doing the right technique but it's very slow especially during that contact
point and the second one exact same technique but now i'm speeding up through the point of contact
and that racket head speed will equal more power on the ball
now before we get any deeper into the lesson if you're serious about improving your game
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miss out on any of our future lessons anything that will help us to generate more racket hit
speed will give us more power and there are different ways to generate that racket speed
now the first method we're going to talk about is using the kinetic chain of the
body
now if you study the best players in the world they all have different forehands
they'll have different grips they hit the ball in different ways but they all use
two methods on their forehand to generate power the first is coil and uncoil and the second is
load and unload so let's look at coil and uncoil first at the beginning of the stroke when they're
waiting in that ready position so they don't know if it's coming to their forehand they
don't know if it's coming to the back end most pro players will wait with the forehand grip
so by waiting with that forehand grip you're giving yourself the most chance to hit a forehand
if it comes to that side or if it comes in the middle you can run around and hit that forehand
now from this position the key point is that coil in the starting phase of that swing
so you'll see federer you'll see nadal you'll see djokovic all of these top pros will use
this coil at the beginning of the stroke so this coil is basically from that ready
position all they're doing is now coiling the upper body so they're turning the left shoulder
if they're a right-handed player so it's turning the left shoulder and coiling the upper body
now this coil is storing energy in the trunk muscles especially the oblique muscles the side
abdominal muscles responsible for rotation of the trunk so if i want to turn my upper
body to the right side now all i'm doing is coiling my upper body but i feel a stretch
in the abdominal muscles in my core muscles and i'm storing that energy
and now if i turn quick and then uncoil you'll see that i'm creating a bit of power a bit of force
on that forward phase because i've created that coil in the first place so it's like a rubber band
you're pulling back the rubber band it's storing the energy and when you release it fires off
same method on that forehand i'm coiling the upper body i'm storing that energy so that when i uncoil
i have a lot of power created because of that uncoiling that kinetic chain from the upper body
so by storing energy you're creating that explosive power on the forward phase of your
forehand but not only that this coil also helps you to prepare the racket head so from this
position now from here all i'm doing is coiling the upper body so i'm not focusing on my swing i'm
not focusing on my hand moving independently and you'll see how far the racket can get by just that
coil of the upper body so i'm going from front on position to a side on position front on position
side on position so my swing has already been initiated with that coil off my upper body so if
i do it at high speeds you can see how this can create that racquet speed and a bit of a swing
just from that coil and uncoil coil uncoil my hand is doing very little in that preparation phase
i'm simply coiling letting go and then uncoiling so once again coil one coil now the next part
of this kinetic chain comes from the leg drive so that loading and unloading with the
legs
so most players will load up on their back leg before they hit the forehand
regardless of the stance so if i'm going for open stance i'm going to be loading up
on my right leg my outside leg from this loading phase
i now have the ability to drive into that ball so loading unloading two three
one two three even if i'm stepping in with a semi-open or a neutral stance
i still load up on this outside leg then i can step forward in that neutral stance
and then have that weight transfer and unloading phase during my strike zone one two three
one two three
now if you can incorporate just these two methods into your own forehand
you'll see a massive improvement in the power straight away so the easiest way for you to feel
this is to take your tennis racket no bowl you can do this anywhere as long as you have enough space
and all you're doing is simply coiling uncoiling coiling uncoiling so shadow forehands just coiling
and uncoiling and then you'll start to use the legs at the same time so i'm coiling i'm loading
i'm driving with my legs then i'm allowing my upper body to uncoil so here load uncoil
here load uncoil the more power i can get from that leg drive and from that uncoil
the less power i'll need to generate for my swing and from the hand itself now if you want more help
with your forehand we have a free forehand guide you can download right away i'll leave the link
below this video all you have to do is click on that link that will take you to our website you
simply enter your email address and we'll send you that free guide right away so that guide is five
steps to hitting the perfect tennis forehand now if you think about any players in your club you
might be one of them yourself hopefully you're not after this lesson you see them coiling the upper
body they take the racquet back and what tends to happen is the arm starts to swing independently
so they haven't uncoiled on the forward phase they haven't created that forward power
from the uncoiling of the body they're creating the power just from that swing off the arm so it's
like this so yes they're turning the shoulders yes they're getting side on but they end up hitting
the ball like this and only when the ball has left them then they actually open the shoulders
so this is exactly what you don't want to be doing if you want to generate that effortless power
time and time again on your forehand you want that coil but you want that uncoil on the forward phase
and at the end of the video i'll show you a very simple drill that will help you to feel that coil
and uncoil to maximum effect so the next thing that will help us to generate more racket speed
is the swing you